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'De cake-walk queen', 1900. Creator: Unknown.

'De cake-walk queen', 1900. Creator: Unknown.

2-949-116 - /Heritage Images

'De cake-walk queen', 1900. 'Featured as a Dance by the Wonderful Bessie Clayton at Weber & Fields Music Hall N.Y.; March Characteristic by John Stromberg; words by Harry B. Smith'. Portrait photograph of Broadway, vaudeville and burlesque dancer Bessie Clayton. From a collection of sheet music, some examples of which depict African Americans in a derogatory way. Other examples are songs by white musicians purporting to be black.

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Sensitive Subject

This image has been flagged as having a sensitive subject, or the attached metadata may use a historical and dated form of words and terms no longer used or deemed appropriate, but in common and accepted usage at the time the content was created and/or catalogued. No offence is intended and it is shown here and should be viewed in it’s historical context.

People Information

Creator
  1. Unknown, attributed to: :
Subject
  1. Bessie Clayton: American: Performer, dancer and choreographer
People Related
  1. M Witmark & Sons: American: Music publisher, publishers of sheet music
  2. John Stromberg: American: Composer, songwriter
  3. Harry B. Smith: American: Lyricist, songwriter
  4. Weber, Fields & Stromberg: American: Publisher
  5. Weber and Fields: American: Comedy duo, performers
Medium
  1. Photograph
Picture Type
  1. Notated music
  2. Portrait
  3. Scores
Category Hierarchy

Lifestyle & Leisure Entertainment & Media

Society & Culture Issues & Causes

Society & Culture Music

Artistic Representations Portraits

People Other

Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4030x5456
File Size : 64,418kb

Aliases

  1. 1256807
  1. 1040001443
  1. 1256807
  1. 2-949-116
  1. 2949116

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